SIMSBURY Couple Pairs Passion For Cars With A Cause
November 24, 2014
Simsbury residents Brad and Sandra Bursque present a $435 check to Lisa Gerrol, West Hartford, while on a recent visit to the National MS Society, Connecticut Chapter. The couple presented the check on behalf of the Valley Collector Car Club, located in Simsbury, of which they are active members. The club hosts its annual Charity Benefit Car Show the week after the 4th of July each year. Proceeds from the event are donated to various local charities, including the National MS Society, Connecticut Chapter. Sandra, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1990, is a junior software engineer at Hamilton Sundstrand. Brad is a system engineer at Hamilton Sundstrand. Gerrol is president and CEO of the National MS Society, Connecticut Chapter. For more information on the Valley Collector Car Club, visit www.valleycollectorcarclub.org. For more information on multiple sclerosis, its effects and the many ways the National MS Society, Connecticut Chapter, assists people in Connecticut living with MS, visit www.ctfightsMS.org.
About the Connecticut-Rhode Island Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society
The Connecticut Chapter strives to provide knowledge and assistance to help people with MS and their families maintain the highest possible quality of life. These goals are achieved through vital national and local programs.
About Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis is an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system that disrupts the flow of information within the brain, and between the brain and body. Symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis. The progress, severity and specific symptoms of MS in any one person cannot yet be predicted, but advances in research and treatment are leading to better understanding and moving us closer to a world free of MS. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with at least two to three times more women than men being diagnosed with the disease. MS affects more than 2.3 million people worldwide.